Skull collections, tiger skins and Chinese baby hats: the designer Jacopo Etro has a knack for spotting the weird and wonderful on his travels, to adorn his Milan home

Eclectic is how the fashion designer Jacopo Etro describes his home. He isn’t exaggerating: the two-storey Milan apartment is chock-full of art, textiles and curios from all over the globe. “I love flea markets, collections — surrounding myself with thousands of things,” he explains. “I wanted a home that was the exact opposite of my office, where everything is linear, stark and modern.”

In contrast, his apartment is colourful, humorous and surprisingly tasteful, given the seemingly random jumble of objects it contains. But while the design scheme looks haphazard at first glance, it is in fact meticulously dictated by Etro’s keen eye, developed during his time working for the family business. He heads up the textile and leather-goods divisions at the fashion house Etro, as well as the homewares collection, which he has managed for the past six years. The latter, the most internationally successful section of